“It’s absolutely retrogressive to suggest [ME] CFS is in the heads of patients. I have seen patients commit suicide, or have been… — Peter Behan Copy Share Image
“The whole idea that you can take a disease like this and exercise your way to health is foolishness. It is insane.” — Paul Cheney Copy Share Image
“It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.” — Daniel L. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Individuals are often stigmatized and told their illness isn’t real… People with [ME] CFS face an incredible burden just getting doctors to… — Barry E. Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image
“The pathophysiological consequences of ME/CFS are multi-systemic and may include: immune and neuroendocrine abnormalities; brain dysfunction and neurocognitive defects; cardiovascular and autonomic… — Anthony Komaroff Copy Share Image
“For the last 48 years, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has been formally classified by the World Health Organisation as a neurological disorder but… — Margaret Williams Copy Share Image
“Severe, persisting fatigue is a prominent symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but individuals with this illness frequently report the occurrence… — Leonard A. Jason Copy Share Image
“I hope you are not saying that (ME)CFS patients are not as ill as HIV patients. I split my clinical time between… — Nancy G. Klimas Copy Share Image
“In July and August 2011 Simon Wessely ran a media campaign with the BBC and the broadsheets, successfully vilifying patients who had… — Horace Reid Copy Share Image
“The most important limitation of [clinical] guidelines is that the recommendations may be wrong... Practices that are sub-optimal from the patient’s perspective… — Steven H. Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am so fed up of having to explain to people that Danny is not just tired; if only that were the… — Sonya Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“The Wessely School rejects the significant body of biomedical evidence demonstrating that chronic “fatigue” or “tiredness” is not the same as the… — Malcolm hopper Copy Share Image
“It must be noted that there is no proof that it is justified to apply the label somatisation to such conditions as… — Per Dalén Copy Share Image
“The Medical Research Council’s PACE Trial of behavioural interventions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) attracted considerable opposition from the… — Malcolm hopper Copy Share Image
“Patients who develop ME/CFS often lose the natural antidepressant effect of exercise, feeling worse after exercise rather than better. Patients may have… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“ME has been classified as a neurological condition at least since 1968 (this should have been 1969)…however, for all these years, sufferers… — Countess of Mar Copy Share Image
“The renaming of ME to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 1988, giving misplaced emphasis to “fatigue”, trivializes the substantial disability of the… — Malcolm hopper Copy Share Image
“The term “myalgic encephalomyelitis” (muscle pain, “myalgic”, with “encephalomyelitis” inflammation of the brain and spinal cord) was first included by the World… — Malcolm Hooper Copy Share Image
“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patients with CFS/ME often experience suspicion by health professionals…The… — Charotte Blease Copy Share Image
“In general, fatigue is not as severe in depression as in ME/CFS. Joint and muscle pains, recurrent sore throats, tender lymph nodes,… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr [Simon] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on… — Byron Hyde Copy Share Image
“The evidence of inflammation in people with ME/CFS is important because the incremental aerobic exercise recommended by the Wessely School and encapsulated… — Margaret Williams Copy Share Image
“we see cardiac diastolic dysfunction in almost every case... there are patients whose diastolic dysfunction is so low/poor that they would fit… — Paul Cheney Copy Share Image
“people with ME/CFS do not have “fatigue as their main symptom”; they have post-extertional fatigability accompanied by malaise as their main symptom… — Margaret Williams Copy Share Image
“There are many reports that suggest a biomedical basis for post-exertional malaise. This is inconsistent with the assumption that there is pathological… — Sten Helmfrid Copy Share Image
“To replace ME/CFS, the [Institute of Medicine] committee proposes the name systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID. This name captures a central… — Ellen Wright Clayton Copy Share Image
“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“In summary, patients with CFS are not “deconditioned”. Neither their muscle strength nor their exercise capacity is different from that of other… — Garry C. Scroop Copy Share Image
“When people with ME/CFS report symptoms of post-exertional malaise, those symptoms are independent of emotional distress, but when the general population report… — Leonard A. Jason Copy Share Image
“I have no problem with not understanding the exact mechanism of the symptoms of CFS…I do have a problem with the lack… — David S. Bell Copy Share Image
“Luckily, we are seeing less and less post-exertional malaise, the symptom that stops Danny’s body and brain recovering properly after expending any… — Sonya Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“(The blood vessels) must be constricted so tight in the brain that little blood gets through. Perhaps it is one of the… — David S. Bell Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
“There is rightful objection to the denial of appropriate investigations and to the nationwide implementation of behavioural modification as the sole management… — Malcolm hopper Copy Share Image
“CBT is a much publicised and debated psychotherapeutic intervention for ME/CFS….The premise that cognitive therapy (eg. changing ‘illness beliefs’) and graded activity… — Anthony Komaroff Copy Share Image
![“It’s absolutely retrogressive to suggest [ME] CFS is in the heads of patients. I have seen patients commit suicide, or have been otherwise destroyed, because some professor has diagnosed them as having a psychiatric illness.” quote by Peter Behan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b2/peter-behan-269225_chronic-fatigue-synd_it-s-absolutely-retrogressive-to-suggest_1250466.jpg)
![“It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.” quote by Daniel L. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c4/daniel-l-peterson-230406_chronic-fatigue-synd_it-me-is-one-of-the-most-disabling-disea_1991371.jpg)
![“Individuals are often stigmatized and told their illness isn’t real… People with [ME] CFS face an incredible burden just getting doctors to take their symptoms seriously” quote by Barry E. Hurwitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8a/barry-e-hurwitz-222278_chronic-fatigue-synd_individuals-are-often-stigmatized-and-to_913193.jpg)
![“The most important limitation of [clinical] guidelines is that the recommendations may be wrong... Practices that are sub-optimal from the patient’s perspective may be recommended to help control costs, serve societal needs, or protect special interests (those of doctors…or politicians, for…” quote by Steven H. Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01c/steven-h-woolf-280034_cfs_the-most-important-limitation-of-clinica_1464808.jpg)
![“Several years ago I was lecturing in British Columbia. Dr [Simon] Wessely was speaking and he gave a thoroughly enjoyable lecture on M.E. and CFS. He had the hundreds of staff physicians laughing themselves silly over the invented griefs of the M.E. and CFS patients who according to Dr Wessely had…” quote by Byron Hyde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b1/byron-hyde-181868_british-columbia_several-years-ago-i-was-lecturing-in-bri_1382328.jpg)
![“we see cardiac diastolic dysfunction in almost every case... there are patients whose diastolic dysfunction is so low/poor that they would fit well into a cardiac ward awaiting transplant... The whole idea that you can take a disease like this [M.E./Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] and exercise your way…” quote by Paul Cheney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f6/paul-cheney-94576_cfs_we-see-cardiac-diastolic-dysfunction-in_1916304.jpg)
![“To replace ME/CFS, the [Institute of Medicine] committee proposes the name systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID. This name captures a central characteristic of the disease: the fact that exertion of any sort— physical, cognitive, or emotional—can adversely affect patients in many organ…” quote by Ellen Wright Clayton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b1/ellen-wright-clayton-235558_cfs_to-replace-me-cfs-the-institute-of-medic_405286.jpg)
![“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners’ death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical…” quote by Michael Hanlon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24c/michael-hanlon-75265_anger_it-is-simon-wessely-s-often-unconcealed_2960000.jpg)
